page_title: Nuremberg
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Nuremberg / Notable residents
context_page_description: Nuremberg is the second-largest city of the German federal state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 511,628 inhabitants make it the 14th largest city in Germany. On the Pegnitz River and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it lies in the Bavarian administrative region of Middle Franconia, and is the largest city and the unofficial capital of Franconia. Nuremberg forms a continuous conurbation with the neighbouring cities of Fürth, Erlangen and Schwabach with a total population of 798,867, while the larger Nuremberg Metropolitan Region has approximately 3.6 million inhabitants. The city lies about 170 kilometres north of Munich. It is the largest city in the East Franconian dialect area, Nuremberg was one of the host cities of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
  There are many institutions of higher education in the city, including the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. With 39,780 students in 2017, it is Bavaria's third-largest and Germany's 11th-largest university, with campuses in Erlangen and Nuremberg and a university hospital in Erlangen. Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm and Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg are also located within the city.
context_section_description: The Arts
  Michael Wolgemut (1434–1519) a German painter and printmaker 
  Hans Folz (ca.1437–1513) a German author and poet
  Veit Stoss (ca.1450–1533) a Renaissance German sculptor, mostly in wood 
  Peter Vischer the Elder  (ca.1455–1529) a German sculptor 
  Adam Kraft (ca.1460–1509) a German stone sculptor, master builder and architect 
  Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) a painter, engraver, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance 
  Hans Leonhard Schäufelein (ca.1480–1540) an artist, painter and designer of woodcuts 
  Augustin Hirschvogel (1503–1553) an artist, mathematician and cartographer
  Michael Sigismund Frank (1770–1847) a Catholic artist, rediscovered glass-painting 
  Lorenz Ritter (1832–1921) a German painter and etcher 
  Philipp Rupprecht (1900–1975) a German cartoonist of anti-Semitic caricatures
  Hermann Kesten (1900-1996) novelist and dramatist
  Eliyahu Koren (1907—2001) a master typographer, graphic artist and designer
  Peter Angermann (born 1945) a German painter 
  Christoph Dreher (born 1952) a German filmmaker, musician and scriptwriter 
  Katy Garretson (born 1963) an American TV director and producer 
  Martina Schradi (born 1972) author, cartoonist and psychologist
  Music
  Conrad Paumann (ca.1410–1473) a German organist, lutenist and composer
  Hans Sachs (1494–1576) a German Meistersinger, poet, playwright, and shoemaker 
  Sebald Heyden (1499–1561) a musicologist, cantor, theologian and hymn-writer
  Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706) a composer, organist, and teacher 
  Hugo Distler (1908–1942) a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer
  Martha Mödl (1912–2001) a German Wagner soprano/mezzo-soprano
  Chaya Arbel (1921–2007) an Israeli female classical composer 
  Siegfried Jerusalem (born 1940) a German operatic tenor
  Kevin Coyne (1944–2004) an English musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and writer 
  Rudi Mahall (born 1966) a contemporary jazz bass clarinet player
  Acting
  Margarete Haagen (1889–1966) a German stage and film actress 
  Wolfgang Preiss (1910–2002) a German theatre, film and TV actor 
  Heinz Bernard (1923–1994) a British actor and director and theatre manager 
  Annette Carell (1926–1967) an American actress of stage, screen, and television 
  George Clooney (born 1961) an American actor, director, producer and filmmaker 
  Sandra Bullock (born 1964) an American actress, producer, and philanthropist 
  Tom Beck (born 1978) a German actor, singer, and entrepreneur 
  Science & Business
  Anton Koberger (ca.1440/1445–1513) a goldsmith, printer and publisher 
  Katerina Lemmel (1466-1533) a patrician businesswoman and Birgittine nun
  Peter Henlein (1485-1542) locksmith and clockmaker, invented the world's first watch
  Kunz Lochner (1510-1567), plate armourer, blacksmith and silversmith
  Joachim Camerarius the Younger (1534–1598) a physician, botanist and zoologist 
  Johann Christoph Volkamer (1644–1720) a German merchant, manufacturer and botanist
  Maria Sybilla Merian (1647–1717) a naturalist and scientific illustrator
  Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer (1651-1725), astronomer
  John Miller (1715–ca.1792) a German engraver and botanist active in London 
  Johann Kaspar Hechtel (1771–1799) a brass factory owner, non-fiction writer and designer of parlour games
  Ernst von Bibra (1806–1878) a German scientist, naturalist and author
  Friedrich Sigmund Merkel (1845-1919) anatomist and histopathologist
  Siegfried Bettmann (1868-1951) bicycle, motorcycle and car manufacturer
  Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach (1871–1952) a paleontologist
  Ulrich Rück (1882–1962 collector of musical instruments, chemist and dealer in pianos
  Karl Bechert (1901–1981) a theoretical physicist in atomic physics and politician
  Peter Owen (1927–2016) a British publisher, founded Peter Owen Publishers 
  Manfred M. Fischer (born 1947) an Austrian and German regional scientist and academic
  Public Thinking & Public Service
  St. Sebaldus of Nuremberg (11th c.) the patron saint of Nuremberg
  Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368–1437) King of Hungary, Croatia, Germany, Bohemia and Italy; Holy Roman emperor from 1433 until 1437 
  Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371–1440) th
caption: Hans Sachs, wood engraving
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